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  • I can pretty much guarantee there are no plans.

    I don’t see the US getting kicked out of anything, unless they actively start attacking allies. This isn’t the first time they did shit like this. Anyone with any knowledge of history will understand that what happened was pretty tame. Incredibly stupid and reckless has been the MO for most of US actions abroad.

    The US has made enemies for life out of some groups and will suffer many terrorist attacks. The US has again damaged its own reputation in a lot of areas. There will be a very big movement away from American companies. And lastly American culture is no longer particularly seen as fashionable/marketable/leading.

    The world will simply move on as it must. The US and its citizens can’t be removed from the map. History can’t be erased. Apologies won’t do anything. Turning America around, towards a more inclusive, equal, just, society is the only thing that can ever hope to help return to good relations. Otherwise its relations will only ever lean on capitalistic relevance to the oligarchy.





  • The consequences will be felt. The common people feel them already, they’re just a toad in a pot of boiling water. People in power being prosecuted isn’t undoing the damage but will help in rebuilding reputation.

    There definitely will be lasting effects in how the world deals with the US. It’s no longer a reliable partner. And its dominance on the world stage is greatly diminished as ties between other powers are strengthened.








  • I’m missing something though. I feel that a deja vu has a different quality. A feeling of familiarity with something that you’re not supposed to be familiar with, almost predictive not quite a prediction. While having a flashback, traumatic or not, is a familiarity with something that you’re actually already familiar with. And it invokes different emotions of anger, fear, disappointment, joy, etc.



  • Alsjemenou@lemy.nltoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldAm I dumb
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    The key concept that you’re forgetting is that this is only the knowledge we have and it’s not the knowledge we don’t have. That is to say that the complexities of human physiology are so large and intertwined that we don’t know a lot about it.

    Will telomere manipulation and treatment of cancer have an effect on longevity, yes.

    But we are very much unable to accurately predict who gets cancer, when and where. Cancer is also a name for a massively large collection of problems in human tissues, that are all completely different in pretty much everything. There will never be A cure or THE cure for cancer because it isn’t a single thing.

    And then there is the fact that most people know what aides in longevity: excersize, a mostly plant based diet, no smoking, no drinking. Thousands of studies have been done on this. People however aren’t doing it. People seem to be perfectly fine with their mortality.

    What all these fuckers want is to smoke, drink, catch every disease known to mankind, eat McDonalds every hour of every day and then walk into a longevity pod that fixes all their problems without pain, without recovery, without effort and preferably within a minute or two while on their phone.


  • Alsjemenou@lemy.nltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldWas it better then or now?
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    Just asking the question is poison for the mind.

    Try making this picture for blacks or asians or any non western, non white, non heteronormative, non male performing person.

    The only way this picture makes sense is that you as a white man want to go back to the times where your oppression wasn’t questioned, while hiding behind the idea that screens are somehow worse than white oppression.



  • There is good music from past centuries. Like … How many people have been inspired by Moonlight Sonata. A few songs always survive as good songs, because that’s what they are.

    To understand Rock and Roll tou need to understand where it came from. You have to understand that it gave white youth the opportunity to make dance swing music in a highly segregated society. Moving away from big bands into smaller garage size groups, being able for the youth to practice in the suburbs. Entering high schools and becoming a subculture, mainly or basically exclusively, white. Where black cultural music moved towards hiphop and rap, talking about the reality of segregation and poverty. White youth was using RnR to protest systemic issues, racism, war, and the old way of doing things within the more socially acceptable ‘fad’ that RnR was considered to be.